Sothebys: Music, Continental Manuscripts and Printed Books, Science and Medicine including The Autograph Manuscript of Kafka's 'The Trial', FRANZ,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 17, 1988 - November 17, 1988
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | ANDREA PALLADIO | I QUATTRO LIBRI DELE ARCHITETTURA | Venice | 1570 [but c.1771-1780] |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 1,045.00 |
| 102 | KHRISTOFOR STEFANOVIC | STEMATOGRAPHIA | Vienna | 1741 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 770.00 |
| 103 | MATTHIAS ROHLFS | SIEBENFACHER . . . BRAUNSCHWEIG-LuNEBURGISCHER STAATS-CALENDER . . . aufs 1765 | Lauenburg | 1765 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 104 | JEAN DUCHESNE aine | MUSEE FRANcAIS | Paris | 1829-1830 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,090.00 |
| 105 | THEODOR HERZL | DER JUDENSTAAT | Leipzig & Vienna | 1896 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 990.00 |
| 106 | HOMER | Oxford | 1800 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,700.00 | |
| 107 | KARL MARX | DAS KAPITAL | Hamburg | 1890-1894 |
USD 700.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 108 | KARL MARX & FRIEDRICH ENGELS | MANIFEST DER KOMMUNISTISCHEN PARTEI | Liverpool Street | 1848 |
GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 22,000.00 |
| 109 | PETRUS DE ARGELLATA | CIRURGIA | Venice | 12 September 1499 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,740.00 |
| 110 | BERNARD FOREST DE BELIDOR | LA SCIENCE DES INGENIEURS dans la conduite des travaux de fortification et d'architecture civile | Paris | 1729 |
GBP 450.00 - 500.00 | 462.00 |
| 111 | ROBERT BOYLE | AN ESSAY OF THE GREAT EFFECTS OF EVEN LANGUID AND UNHEEDED MOTION | 1685 |
GBP 450.00 - 550.00 | 880.00 | |
| 112 | ROBERT BOYLE | MEMOIRS FOR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMANE BLOOD | 1684 |
GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,650.00 | |
| 113 | SALOMON DE CAUS | LES RAISONS DES FORCES MOUVANTES AVEC DIVERSES MACHINES TANT UTILLES QUE PLAISANTES | Frankfurt | 1615 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,960.00 |
| 114 | WILLIAM COWPER | THE ANATOMY OF HUMANE BODIES . . . containing many new Anatomical Discoveries | Oxford | 1698 |
GBP 600.00 - 700.00 | 825.00 |
| 115 | ALEXANDER CUMMING | THE ELEMENTS OF CLOCK AND WATCH-WORK | 1888 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 116 | CHARLES DARWIN | ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection | John Murray | 1859 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 117 | DENIS DIDEROT & JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT | ENCYCLOPEDIE | Geneva & Lyons | 1777-1779, 1780-1781 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 118 | ALBRECHT DuRER | INSTITUTIONES GEOMETRICAE | Paris | 1532 |
USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 119 | ALBRECHT DuRER | DELLA SIMMETRIA DEI CORPI HUMANI | Venice | 1591 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 550.00 |
| 120 | MARIE DOMINIQUE JOSEPH ENGRAMELLE | LA TONOTECHNIE OU L'ART DE NOTER LES CYLINDRES | Paris | 1775 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 121 | NICCOLO FALCUCCI | SERMONES MEDICINALES | Venice | 1490-1491 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 122 | Sir ALEXANDER FLEMING | ON THE ANTIBACTERIAL ACTION OF CULTURES OF A PENICILLIUM | Garrison-Morton | 1933], 8vo, [1929] |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 123 | JOHANN RUDOLPH GLAUBER | THE WORKS . . . containing Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy | 1689 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,100.00 | |
| 124 | JOANNES HERBINIUS | DISSERTATIONES DE ADMIRANDIS MUNDI CATARACTIS SUPRA & SUBTERRANEIS | Amsterdam | 1678 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 125 | JOHANNES KEPLER | SEU OPUS POSTHUMUM DE ASTRONOMIA LUNARI | 1634 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 8,800.00 | |
| 126 | FORTUNIUS LICETUS | Ex recensione Gerardi Blasii . . . Editio novissima | Amsterdam | 1665 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 550.00 |
| 127 | ALLAIN MANESSON MALLET | LA GEOMETRIE PRATIQUE | Paris | 1702 |
USD 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 | Not Sold |
| 128 | PEHR LINDBERG | ARCHITECTURA MECHANICA | Amsterdam | 1727 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 825.00 |
| 129 | GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORGAGNI | THE SEATS AND CAUSES OF DISEASES | 1822 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 770.00 | |
| 130 | MUKHTAR IBN AL-HASAN | TACUINI SANITATIS Elluchasem Elimithar ... de sex rebus non naturalibus . . . Albengnefit de virtutibus medicinarum & ciborum. Iac. Alkindus de rerum gradibus | Strassburg | 1531 |
GBP 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,760.00 |
| 131 | CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS | CENTILOQUIUM CUM COMMENTO HALI | Venice | 15 January 1484 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,620.00 |
| 132 | CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS | ALMAGESTUM SEU MAGNAE CONSTRUCTIONIS MATHEMATICAE OPUS | Venice | 1528 |
GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | 1,100.00 |
| 133 | EUCHARIUS ROESSLIN | DER SCHWANNGEREN FRAWEN UND HEBAMMEN ROSEGARTTEN | Augsburg | 1528 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 7,700.00 |
| 134 | CHRISTOPH ANDREAS SCHLuTER | GRuNDLICHER UNTERRICHT VON HuTTE-WERKEN | Brunswick | 1738 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 135 | KAZIMIERZ SIEMIENOWICZ | THE GREAT ART OF ARTILLERY . . . translated from the French by George Shelvocke | 1729 |
USD 600.00 - 650.00 | Not Sold | |
| 136 | STEPHEN SWITZER | AN INTRODUCTION TO A GENERAL SYSTEM OF HYDROSTATICKS AND HYDRAULICKS | 1729 |
USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 137 | BERNARDINO TELESIO | DE MARI | Naples | 1570 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 138 | ANDREAS VESALIUS | DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA LIBRI SEPTEM | Venice | 1568 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,200.00 |
| 139 | GEORGIUS VALLA | DE EXPETENDIS ET FUGIENDIS REBUS OPUS | Venice | December 1501 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,870.00 |
| 140 | JOHANNES VESLING | SYNTAGMA ANATOMICUM | Padua | 1647 |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 |
| 141 | THOMAS WILLIS | PHARMACEUTICE RATIONALIS: or | 1679-1681 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 2,640.00 | |
| 142 | FRANCIS BACON | INSTAURATIO MAGNA [NOVUM ORGANUM] | 1620 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 143 | CHARLES DARWIN | ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES by Means of Natural Selection | 1859 |
GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,750.00 | |
| 144 | RENE DESCARTES | DE HOMINE FIGURIS et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl | Amsterdam | 1663 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,045.00 |
| 145 | GALILEO GALILEI | DIALOGO . . . SOPRA I DUE MASSIMI SISTEMI DEL MONDO TOLEMAICO | Florence | 1632 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,750.00 |
| 146 | GALILEO GALILEI | DIMOSTRAZIONI MATEMATICHE | Leiden | 1638 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,300.00 |
| 147 | EUCLID | Venice | 25 May 1482 |
USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 148 | Sir ISAAC NEWTON | ARITHMETICA UNIVERSALIS | London | 1707 |
GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 880.00 |
| 149 | Sir ISAAC NEWTON | OPTICKS: OR | 1704 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 2,860.00 | |
| 150 | BLAISE PASCAL | LETTRES DE A. DETTONVILLE CONTENANT QUELQUES-UNES DE SES INVENTIONS DE GEOMETRIE | Paris | 1659 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,820.00 |
| 151 | JOSEPH PRIESTLEY | THE HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF ELECTRICITY | 1767 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 770.00 | |
| 152 | ALEXANDER I | St Petersburg | 15 January 1808 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 385.00 | |
| 153 | HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN | AUTOGRAPH QUATRAIN | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 528.00 | ||
| 154 | HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN | AUTOGAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H.C.Andersen") | Aalborg | 28 July 1859 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 462.00 |
| 155 | HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H.C.Andersen") | Copenhagen | 7 February 1862 |
GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,210.00 |
| 156 | ART | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,320.00 | |||
| 157 | AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE | GBP 400.00 - 450.00 | 462.00 | |||
| 158 | HONORE DE BALZAC | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("de Balzac") | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | 880.00 | ||
| 159 | BERLIN-AKADEMIE DER KuNSTE | PAPERS relating to the work of the Academy at the beginning of the twentieth century | GBP 400.00 - 450.00 | 1,045.00 | ||
| 160 | OTTO VON BISMARCK | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("von Bismarck") | Berlin | 25 September 1849 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 |
| 161 | LOUIS BLANC | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Louis Blanc") | 1872 and 1875 |
GBP 400.00 - 450.00 | 3,850.00 | |
| 162 | GEBHARD LEBERECHT BLuCHER , Marshal | Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("Blucher") | Stargard | 23 August 1811 and 13 February 1817 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 770.00 |
| 163 | BONAPARTE FAMILY | 1800 to 1822 |
GBP 400.00 - 500.00 | 660.00 | ||
| 164 | BONAPARTE FAMILY. COLLECTION OF LETTERS by Napoleon III (four letters, dating from different periods in his career: 1840 | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 440.00 | |||
| 165 | JORGE LUIS BORGES | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF BORGES'S INTRODUCTION TO JULIO NOE'S "ANTOLOGiA DE LA POESiA ARGENTINA MODERNA" | 1926 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 166 | BERTOLT BRECHT | THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS 'ORATORIUM' | 1916-1917 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 167 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'LIED DER MuDEN EMPORER' | Zwinger | 22 February 1918 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,090.00 |
| 168 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH POEM beginning "Mein Herz ist voller Glut | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,080.00 | ||
| 169 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH POEM ENTITLED 'DIE MANNER DER SEE' | 1916 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,740.00 | |
| 170 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH POEM beginning "Bonnie Mac Sorel freite . . . " | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,960.00 | ||
| 171 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH POEM ENTITLED 'PSALM II' | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,420.00 | ||
| 172 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH POEM ENTITLED 'DER TOTENPFLUG' | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 4,180.00 | ||
| 173 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH POEM ENTITLED 'TANZLIED' | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,760.00 | ||
| 174 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH POEM beginning "Seine Musse zu geniessen . . . " | 1920-1923 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,090.00 | |
| 175 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'PSALM' (untitled herein) | 1917-1919 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,200.00 | |
| 176 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'DAS LIED VON DER WOLKE DER NACHT' | 1913-1926 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,760.00 | |
| 177 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'NORDLANDSAGE' (here entitled 'Nordlandschaft') | 1913-1926 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,210.00 | |
| 178 | BERTOLT BRECHT | AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF HIS POEM 'TOD IM WALD' | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 3,300.00 | ||
| 179 | BERTOLT BRECHT | TYPESCRIPTS OF THREE OF HIS POEMS | 1913-1926 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 1,320.00 | |
| 180 | BERTOLT BRECHT | TYPESCRIPT POEM ENTITLED 'DIE LEGENDE VOM TOTEN SOLDATEN' | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,200.00 | ||
| 181 | BERTOLT BRECHT | GROUP OF FOUR EARLY POEMS BY BRECHT | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,430.00 | ||
| 182 | LEOPOLD VON BUCH | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Leopold von Buch") | Berlin | 11 December 1836 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 183 | FRANCIS CARCO | THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF 'POUR FAIRE SUITE A LA BOHEME ET MON COEUR' | USD 400.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 184 | LAZARE CARNOT | AUTOGRAPH RETAINED DRAFT LETTER SIGNED | Paris | 8 November 1794 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 185 | CHARLES THE BOLD (1433-1477, last Duke of Burgundy) LETTER SIGNED ("Charles") | Nuyss "[Neuss] | 10 October 1474 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 2,860.00 | |
| 186 | GUSTAVE COURBET | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Gustave Courbet") | GBP 400.00 - 450.00 | 140.00 | ||
| 187 | CHARLES DE GAULLE | CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT OF THE RADIO BROADCAST IN WHICH DE GAULLE | 17 November 1945 |
USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 188 | FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED | 3 March 1876 |
GBP 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 11,550.00 | |
| 189 | ALFRED DREYFUS | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("A. Dreyfus") | Paris | 1 July 1912 |
GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 770.00 |
| 190 | [DREYFUS AFFAIR] FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED BY TWO OF THE PRINCIPAL APOLOGISTS OF CAPTAIN DREYFUS | 1883 |
USD 400.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 191 | ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HuLSHOFF | AUTOGRAPH VERSES written on the verso of the fly-leaf of her Gedichte (Cotta, Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1844) | Meersburg am Bodensee | 15 January 1848 |
GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 3,080.00 |
| 192 | ALBERT EINSTEIN | ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF EINSTEIN BY JOHN PHILIPP | 1929 |
GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 | 3,300.00 | |
| 193 | ALBERT EINSTEIN | THREE TYPED LETTERS SIGNED ("A. Einstein") | Princeton | 16 May to 2 August 1944 |
GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,420.00 |
| 194 | ALBERT EINSTEIN | IMPORTANT LETTER SIGNED ("A. Einstein") | Princeton | 28 December 1935 |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 4,180.00 |
| 195 | ALBERT EINSTEIN | AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT on the difference between the sexes | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | 1,210.00 | ||
| 196 | MAX EITINGON | Two LETTERS SIGNED ("M. Eitingon") | Jerusalem | 12 December 1938 and 17 July 1941 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 197 | EUROPEAN ROYALTY | GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,210.00 | |||
| 198 | THEODOR FONTANE | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Th. Fontane") | GBP 500.00 - 600.00 | 550.00 | ||
| 199 | UGO FOSCOLO | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("H. Foscolo") | 1816 |
GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,430.00 | |
| 200 | JOSEPH FOUCHE | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Le duc d'otrante") | Paris | 9 August 1815 |
GBP 400.00 - 450.00 | 275.00 |
